people in charge of air Malaysia search should be sacked

[carmellas3]

There were many eyewitness reports of a low flying jet from people seperated in the Maldives and they ignored them as their tech calculations said it wasn't possible. Now it looks like they were all right a d had they started searching there things might have been different.

You know Réunion Island is nowhere near the Maldives, don't you? It's like complaining there were eyewitness reports of it separating above Wales when it was found in Romania.

There's a helpful cideo in here if reading is too much effort...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-33798704

They are not that far away, maybe 1000 miles and in the same ocean. The plane was just reported low at Maldives so probabaly carried on for 100s more miles before crashing and its had 500 days washing about in the sea.

So many different people from the Maldives reported it, yet they were ignored.

The search was literally like looking for a needle in a haystack! I don't think op has any idea whatsoever just how difficult a sea search can be.
As for sacking the searchers....perhaps op thinks they could do better?

Very gratuitously insulting no only to those experts but also the grieving families and friends of those missing.

fourcorneredcircle no idea why your being rude

You clearly don't understand currents.

On the news, it was made clear that the wing washing up where it did fitted perfectly with a year's worth of drifting with the current from the search location.

Yes and they were looking in the wrong barn! Trusted computers and not eyewitness reports

Over 2000 miles....

Read up on it OP. YABU. As previous posters have said, with the currents, the debris washed up in the predicted radius based on their (massive) search area

Ocean drift is actually best modelled on computers.

Tbh it sounded a very hard search. My thoughts are with the families. Not knowing must have been awful.

And YY, SoupDragon's stuff about currents applies.

You know that this recent finding doesn't make the plane/Maldives idea correct?

It's 3546kms (2203 miles) not 1000 miles, and over an ocean thousands of feet deep.
The same ocean ? Yes, all 165.2 million square kilometres of it

The location that the wing has turned up is consistent with the original search location. Which was very big, and not at all easy to search.

You might want to do some wider reading about how they decide where to search, how time and currents affect the search area, how difficult is it to find an aeroplane in a huge ocean when the black box stops providing pings.. and let's not forget that this is an international effort, there were many qualified and experienced people involved in this search.

This isn't like finding a crashed car, and there is no indication that they were searching in the wrong place. There is also no indication that those who reported seeing the plane in the Maldives were ignored - many were interviewed.

See....

On the news, it was made clear that the wing washing up where it did fitted perfectly with a year's worth of drifting with the current from the search location.

Lol. I bet they did. A lot of saving face going on. Must be nice to just watch the news and have all the thinking and thought process done for you.

Yes I got the milage wrong, thought it was in the seashells.

Am I reading ocean current arrows correctly, that general movement from the Maldives is east?

You measure distance in units of seashells?

The search area was so big it could turn up in the English channel and they'd still be maintaining face.

If only they had of had some eyewitnesses to narrow it down...

Well thank God you've arrived to save the day op. If they had only listened to you they could have saved themselves a whole year of expensive and pointless searching.

And your qualifications are?

2200 miles.

Why are you focusing on the Maldives theory when the flaperon washing up on La Réunion is just as consistent with the drift prediction diagrams based on a SE Indian Ocean crash site, which were produced more than a year ago?

I heard someone liken the search to trying to find the back of an earring in a field the size of 20 football pitches.

You measure distance in units of seashells?

Yes. That's how you measure the ocean.